Tag: Credit

Bail Out My Student Loan

This really irks me.  I had a bit of a rant in 2008 about the federal government bailing out delinquent home owners (Bail Out My Mortgage) and […]

Bail Out My Mortgage

I’ve kept quiet about this for quite some time.  Mostly because it’s probably a pretty sensitive topic for some people.  But, well, I can’t control […]

Iceland Rescued?

A follow up to the post I put up about Iceland’s woes: Icelandic Freeze Iceland and the International Monetary Fund will probably announce an agreement […]

Timeline: Global Credit Crunch

An interesting credit crunch timeline from BBC, thanks Ché Garcia (click on the image below for the full article).

Icelandic Freeze

This is a bit of an eye-opening story I read this morning.  For a country completely isolated out there in the Alantic it’s a very […]

Central Bank Execution-Style Rate Cuts

The Federal Reserve, European Central Bank and four other central banks lowered interest rates in an unprecedented coordinated effort to ease the economic effects of […]

European Versus US Bank Leverage

There’s a lot of talk about leverage so here’s a comparison of assets versus equity.  Assets are from end of financial year, and they don’t […]